SAP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

SAP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of SAP products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SAP over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within SAP SE.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +48
Contract jobs citing SAP 94 77 94
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.10% 4.43% 4.35%
As % of the Vendors category 9.89% 9.95% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 37 72
10th Percentile £401 £351 £430
25th Percentile £525 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -8.33% +8.70%
75th Percentile £725 £650 £723
90th Percentile £835 £831 £838
Central London median daily rate £588 £538 £588
% change year-on-year +9.30% -8.51% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £58.92 £62.50 -
% change year-on-year -5.73% - -

All Vendors
City of London

SAP falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 950 774 932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 44.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 476 686
10th Percentile £363 £313 £323
25th Percentile £436 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.22% -0.09%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £751 £791
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -25.87% +52.08% -5.95%

SAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SAP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

SAP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SAP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SAP in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for SAP in the City of London

SAP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SAP

SAP
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SAP within the City of London region over the 6 months to 14 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 - -
SAP
Central London

SAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.06%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.06%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 31 (32.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (5.32%) SAP ERP
2 5 (5.32%) SAP HCM
3 4 (4.26%) SAP EWM
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (3.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (3.19%) SAP MM
5 2 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (2.13%) NetSuite
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (2.13%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (2.13%) SAP BRIM
5 2 (2.13%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (2.13%) SAP PM
5 2 (2.13%) SAP PP
5 2 (2.13%) SAP QM
6 1 (1.06%) SAP FI-AR
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.70%) SuccessFactors
2 7 (7.45%) Azure
3 5 (5.32%) AWS
3 5 (5.32%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.19%) OCI
5 3 (3.19%) Serverless
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon EventBridge
6 2 (2.13%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.13%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (2.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub
6 2 (2.13%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.13%) Textract
7 1 (1.06%) Boomi
7 1 (1.06%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.19%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (3.19%) Power BI
3 2 (2.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
3 2 (2.13%) CockroachDB
3 2 (2.13%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.13%) Metadata
3 2 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
3 2 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.06%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (1.06%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.06%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.06%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) JIRA
2 1 (1.06%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.06%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.06%) Postman
2 1 (1.06%) Selenium
2 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.06%) TestRail
2 1 (1.06%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (34.04%) Finance
2 19 (20.21%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.70%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Billing
5 6 (6.38%) Banking
6 4 (4.26%) Law
6 4 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.19%) General Ledger
7 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.19%) Legal
8 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.13%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.06%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.06%) Local Government
9 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (20.21%) Architect
2 16 (17.02%) Consultant
3 14 (14.89%) Solutions Architect
4 12 (12.77%) SAP Consultant
5 10 (10.64%) Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) Project Manager
6 8 (8.51%) Lead
7 7 (7.45%) SAP Manager
8 6 (6.38%) SAP Project Manager
8 6 (6.38%) Senior
9 5 (5.32%) Business Analyst
9 5 (5.32%) Functional Consultant
9 5 (5.32%) SAP Functional Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) SAP Analyst
10 4 (4.26%) SAP Architect
11 3 (3.19%) ERP Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
11 3 (3.19%) Senior Manager
11 3 (3.19%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.70%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (9.57%) Middleware
3 4 (4.26%) XML
4 3 (3.19%) JSON
4 3 (3.19%) REST
5 2 (2.13%) boto
5 2 (2.13%) EDI
5 2 (2.13%) IDoc
5 2 (2.13%) NumPy
5 2 (2.13%) OAuth
5 2 (2.13%) Pandas
6 1 (1.06%) OpenID
6 1 (1.06%) PySpark
6 1 (1.06%) RAML
6 1 (1.06%) SAML
6 1 (1.06%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.06%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.06%) SAP TM
6 1 (1.06%) Swagger
6 1 (1.06%) XML Schema
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.45%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.32%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.26%) FMCG
3 4 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.13%) IoT
5 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Life Science
6 1 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.06%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.06%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.04%) ERP
1 32 (34.04%) Migration
2 18 (19.15%) Data Migration
3 14 (14.89%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (14.89%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (11.70%) Roadmaps
5 9 (9.57%) ETL
5 9 (9.57%) Translating Business Requirements
5 9 (9.57%) Validation
6 8 (8.51%) Data Modelling
6 8 (8.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (8.51%) Technology Roadmap
7 7 (7.45%) Agile
7 7 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (7.45%) Data Governance
7 7 (7.45%) Integration Patterns
7 7 (7.45%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (7.45%) Project Delivery
7 7 (7.45%) Project Management
7 7 (7.45%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) SQL
2 4 (4.26%) Python
3 3 (3.19%) ABAP
4 2 (2.13%) C#
4 2 (2.13%) Java
5 1 (1.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.06%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 4 (4.26%) PMP
1 4 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.19%) Degree
2 3 (3.19%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.13%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) ACCA
4 1 (1.06%) CISM
4 1 (1.06%) CISSP
4 1 (1.06%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.70%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.51%) QA
3 6 (6.38%) GDPR
4 4 (4.26%) GAAP
5 3 (3.19%) PMO
6 2 (2.13%) IFRS
6 2 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (1.06%) Basel III
7 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.06%) GRC
7 1 (1.06%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.06%) IFRS 9
7 1 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (1.06%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (25.53%) Oracle
2 9 (9.57%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.51%) Workday
4 6 (6.38%) Ariba
5 3 (3.19%) Informatica
6 2 (2.13%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.13%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.06%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.06%) Concur
7 1 (1.06%) Databricks
7 1 (1.06%) ESRI
7 1 (1.06%) OpenText
7 1 (1.06%) Planon
7 1 (1.06%) Qualtrics
7 1 (1.06%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.06%) Talend